Nov 3, 2022 | Emerge 2021 Cohort, Emerge Alumni
Julia Rocha-Nava EmergeNYC (2021) Julia Rocha-Nava (they/them/ellx), who performs under the artist name Chispa, is a non-binary first-generation chicanx vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. They grew up surrounded by mountains that turn purple at sunset, in...
Nov 3, 2022 | Emerge 2021 Cohort, Emerge Alumni
Verónica Peña EmergeNYC (2021) Verónica Peña is an interdisciplinary artist and independent curator from Spain based in the United States. Her work explores the themes of absence, separation, and the search for harmony through Performance Art. Peña is interested in...
Nov 3, 2022 | Emerge 2021 Cohort, Emerge Alumni
Candace Hudert EmergeNYC (2021) Candace Hudert (any pronouns) is a multidisciplinary mess-maker and artist from Richmond, VA. From creating video games, to directing theatre, to writing for animation and more, his work is clown and queer. It aims to stretch the world...
Nov 3, 2021 | Emerge 2021 Cohort, Emerge Alumni
Mariano Ruiz EmergeNYC (2021) Mariano Ruiz is a trans nonbinary cabaret artivist from Mexico City. They use humor, pop culture, and satire to talk about Othered bodies and their experiences, creating projects that question the social segregation created by the...
Jul 18, 2021 | Emerge 2021 Cohort, Emerge Alumni
Yara Colón EmergeNYC (2021) Yara Colón is an interdisciplinary voice artist based on ancestral Nonotuck land. Thematically, their work focuses largely on queer intimacies, ritual, diasporic fragmentations, and collective utopic progressions. She believes that all...
Jul 18, 2021 | Emerge 2021 Cohort, Emerge Alumni
Rodrigo Arenas-Carter EmergeNYC (2021) Rodrigo Arenas-Carter is an arts worker, researcher, migrant, and pansexual. His performance artworks have been exhibited through the Americas, receiving grants and awards, and he is the author of academic essays on performance...
